Spain, Take This Cup from Me (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cesar Vallejo
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Poetry or poets, Paris, Christianity, South America or South Americans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Civil wars, Spain or Spanish people
Critical Evaluation:
For the reader who must rely on the English translation of the poetry of César Vallejo, there will always be some sense of distance from the original Spanish. This is all the more the case as Vallejo, like the Irish writer James Joyce, often played with his native language in his poetry, and wordplay is nearly always untranslatable.
César Vallejo, who was born in Santiago de Chuco, a tiny town nestling in the Peruvian Andes, and who died in Paris, is considered by many to be the finest of all Spanish America’s poets of the twentieth century. He...
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